Friday, January 15, 2010 Slots revenue down at 2 Connecticut casinos
Associated Press The operators of Connecticut's two casinos say their slot machine revenue continued its slide in December compared with the same month in 2008. The Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, which runs Foxwoods Resort Casino and MGM Grand at Foxwoods, reported... Covidien is suing J&J over surgical devices
Associated Press Covidien Plc, a medical products company incorporated in Ireland and operated out of Mansfield, said it is suing a unit of Johnson & Johnson, claiming patent infringement from a line of ultrasonic surgical products. Covidien claims that Ethicon's... Collective Brands plans to buy Above the Rim
Associated Press Collective Brands Inc., the Kansas-based company that owns such local footwear brands as Stride Rite and Saucony, said that it will buy the Above The Rim brand from Reebok International as it looks to build its presence in the... Boston gets $13.6 million to buy foreclosed homes
By Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff The City of Boston has been awarded $13.6 million in federal funding to help buy and renovate hundreds of foreclosed homes, part of $47.9 million in competitive awards issued in the state this week.... RI gas prices increase slightly
Associated Press Gas prices have risen 3 cents for motorists in Rhode Island. A state survey showed a gallon of regular, unleaded was averaging $2.80, a slight increase over last week. Still, prices have jumped more than 58 percent since... State Street pledges support for Haiti disaster relief
Globe Staff The State Street Foundation, the charitable grant-making arm of State Street Corp., said it has made a $400,000 grant to Oxfam America's Haiti Earthquake Response Fund. In a press release, State Street added that it has started a... Illume Software appoints chief executive
Globe Staff Illume Software announced the appointment of Daniel Ross as president and chief executive. Ross joins the Concord company as it introduces its flagship product iZUP, a mobile application that aims to eliminate cell-phone related driver distractions. Before joining... US Attorney: J&J paid kickbacks to boost sales
Associated Press Federal prosecutors in Boston say health care giant Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks so nursing homes would put more patients on its blockbuster schizophrenia drug. They say J&J paid the kickbacks, in... Convention center has an iPhone app
Globe Staff The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority and Cambridge-based Swift Mobile said they plan to beta-test a special iPhone app this weekend at the mid-winter meeting of the American Library Association at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. According to... Interactive Data board reviewing strategic options
Associated Press BEDFORD -- Interactive Data Corp., a provider of financial market data, said today that its board is looking into "strategic alternatives" for the company. Such alternatives can mean a sale of the company, but IDC did not say... NASA teams up with InnoCentive
Globe Staff InnoCentive Inc., a Waltham company that looks to apply the principles of crowd-sourcing to solve the research and development problems that face its corporate customers, said it has teamed up with NASA. NASA and InnoCentive, which operates a global... Cape Cod airport construction delayed again
Associated Press Plans to build a new $20 million terminal at Barnstable Municipal Airport have been put on hold again. Airport manager Roland Breault says planners have yet to resubmit designs to the Cape Cod Commission for an access road... College for Working Families taps Princeton Review
Globe Staff The National Labor College, a training center for AFL-CIO members, said it is planning to establish a new online service that will bring high-quality degree programs to the AFL-CIO?s 11.5 million members and their families. Joining the college in... Today in Globe Business
From all walks of life, donations pour in They followed news accounts of the devastation in Haiti, horrified. And then they gave to a country that only a few had ever visited, and many knew little about. From $5 sent... Thursday, January 14, 2010 WCVB will air interviews with Senate candidates
By Johnny Diaz, Globe Staff WCVB-TV (Channel 5) said it will preempt regular programming tomorrow to air interviews with US Senate candidates Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley. The interviews will be part of a special edition of "On... | 
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